Movies like L'été en pente douce

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   Hotel America

   Strong story similarity

   1981 · 95 min · Drama · Romance

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   Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.

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   • shared production studio: Films A2

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   White Wedding

   Strong story similarity

   1989 · 92 min · Drama · Romance

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   A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.

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   • a closely matched era

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   Confidentially Yours

   Strong story similarity

   1983 · 110 min · Comedy · Crime · Mystery

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   After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: Films A2

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   Charles and Lucie

   Strong story similarity

   1979 · 98 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South of France.

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   Good Old Daze

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 101 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.

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   Day for Night

   Strong story similarity

   1973 · 116 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   Late August, Early September

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 112 min · Drama · Romance

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   A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.

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   Marius and Jeannette

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.

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   Same Old Song

   Shared cast

   1997 · 120 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Business executive Odile seeks a new, larger apartment. Her younger sister Camille, having completed her doctoral thesis in history, is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours as he's attracted to her. However, Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.

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   • a principal cast member

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    My Little Loves

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    1974 · 124 min · Drama

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    Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.

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    • substantial genre overlap

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